Bradley Manning to be moved from Virginia to Kansas

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Bradley Manning to be moved from Virginia to Kansas
WikiLeaks suspect to be moved to Fort Leavenworth after storm of protest at his treatment in Quantico military prison

Ed Pilkington in New York The Guardian, Wednesday 20 April 2011

The US soldier accused of downloading hundreds of thousands of state secrets and passing them to WikiLeaks is to be moved from the military prison where he has been held for the past 10 months after international protests that he is being held in conditions amounting to torture.

US officials quoted by AP said that Bradley Manning is to be moved from the military brig in Quantico marine base in Virginia to Fort Leavenworth in Kansas. He was arrested last year in a US base outside Baghdad where he had been working as an intelligence analyst and has since been charged with passing classified information to an unauthorised party.

The charges relate to the posting by WikiLeaks of a trove of state secrets, including US embassy cables first published by the Guardian in tandem with other newspapers.

In Quantico, Manning has been held in solitary confinement under a "prevention of injury order" which, his lawyer has argued, amounts to an unjustified form of coercion ahead of his court martial. In recent weeks he has been stripped of his clothes at night and left wearing only a smock.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/apr/20/bradley-man...

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1. I wish him the best.

This whole thing is so FUBAR.

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2. I wonder if Dennis Kucinich or the UN torture investigator will be able to see him now?